Legal Traineeship GHI

at  Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service

JOB SUMMARY

COPFS is offering the opportunity to undertake a Legal Traineeship based in Grampian Highland and Islands with anticipated start dates commencing September 2026.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The COPFS Legal Traineeship offers a wide range of experience and opportunities in the public prosecution service in Scotland. You will have the chance to work at either our Aberdeen or Inverness Procurator Fiscals Office. The traineeship will involve successful candidates undertaking a range of responsibilities, including the preparation and presentation of cases in the Summary courts. If you successfully complete the traineeship you may enroll as a qualified solicitor in Scotland.
Trainees will have the opportunity to work in Procurator Fiscal’s offices in either Aberdeen or Inverness with travel required to other Grampian Highland and Island offices. You may also spend a proportion of the traineeship working within another government agency.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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